Chris Griffy interviewedSturgill Simpson. An excerpt: “Something I find incredibly lacking today, especially in modern country, it’s attitude. Even guys like Bill Monroe had it. They had balls, you know. You could feel it. It had to have some sauce on it, man.”

The petition to induct Gram Parsons into the Country Music Hall of Fame has exceeded 10,000 signatures.

I think I’m going to start a petition to induct Neil Young into the CMHoF. Makes just as much sense….

Bruce
September 23, 2013 at 4:39 pm

@NM – Say what?!?!

nm
September 23, 2013 at 5:19 pm

Well, look at Neil’s impact on country music! It’s as great as that of Hank himself, exponentially. And people he’s sung with have been inducted, so obviously he needs to join them. And a petition is just the way to get anyone inducted into the Hall, so I say let’s go for it.

Barry Mazor
September 23, 2013 at 5:35 pm

The Parsons petition linked above makes the same sort of ridiculous claim for Gram as the joking Neil Young suggestion..Parsons for the Rock Hall–well,go ahead and try it. Gram’s impact on country music for its makers and for its fans–very slight.

Luckyoldsun
September 23, 2013 at 6:51 pm

I’m not a Gram Parsons supporter, but I still think the Country Music H-o-F voters have really missed the mark as far as recognizing great artists who are not strictly from the country mainstream. The Rock & Roll H-o-F probably goes too far in the other direction, but if the Rock hall can claim Louis Armstrong, Johnny Cash, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, and Hank Williams, then the Country hall should at least induct Charles–who had a landmark album called “Modern Sounds in Country & Western Music” (and even had a #1 hit on the country charts in a duet with Willie). And also Bing Crosby, who did a lot of country material, and Woody Guthrie. Is “Pretty Boy Floyd” not country?

I don’t know what’s the downside to putting those great American artists in the country hall. Voting them in would probably do more to burnish the stature of the Hall of Fame than it would for the stature of those artists.

Rick
September 23, 2013 at 7:37 pm

Well, when they finally get around to opening an “Americana Music Hall of Fame”, Gram Parsons should be one of the first inductees…

That’s a boatload of new videos today! Crikey mate! Think I’ll start with Aussie Jayne Denham and then maybe see what a Chelsea Bain is exactly? Hmm…

I can understand why Waylon Jennings fans are so jazzed about Sturgill Simpson. On the other hand I was never much of a Waylon fan and don’t care for Sturgill’s music much either. Still I’m glad that there are artists like Sturgill out there keeping things stirred up a bit and some country traditions alive.

BRUCE
September 23, 2013 at 8:55 pm

I watched Bain’s video. Utterly uninterested. Just another over-produced rock/country number that has become all too common in our increasing melting pot called country music.

TX Music Jim
September 24, 2013 at 3:03 pm

Personally, I think Gram Parsons should be in the country music hall of fame. Before him though there are some others that deserve it more in my mind. However like Gram I’d doubt any of these will ever happen. David Alan Coe, Gary Steweart and Jerry Jeff Walker. BTW Sturgill Simpson’s music is a breath of fresh air and does remind me of why I loved Waylon’s music so very much. Jerry Jeff and David Alan should be sho in’s at the very least for the songwriters hall of fame.